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Media

2008-04-24T19:28:25Z

Dave Eyre: /* Sheffield Live */

==National Magazines==

===English Dance & Song===

The magazine of the EFDSS, English Dance & Song is the longest-established magazine devoted to folk music, dance and song in the country.

First published in 1936, it has appeared four times a year ever since.

[http://eds.efdss.org web site] [http://www.myspace.com/edsmagazine My Space]

=== fRoots ===

....is really an International magazine covering a wide range of traditional and roots music from all over the world, including England.

They describe themselves as covering ''Local Music from Out There''.

[http://www.frootsmag.com/ web site]

===Living Tradition===

The Living Tradition is a bi-monthly Folk & Traditional music magazine that has been in publication for over 14 years. The main aim of the magazine is ''to highlight the rich heritage of traditional music in the British Isles and further afield, and attempt to bring it to a wider audience''.

[http://www.folkmusic.net/ web site]

==Regional Magazines==

===Tykes News===

West Yorkshire magazine carrying gig information and reviews from the region. The link also leads to FiloFolk, an online directory administered by Jim Lawton.

[http://www.tykesnews.org.uk/ web site]

===Shreds and Patches===

Shreds & Patches is a free folk magazine for Shropshire and surrounding areas comprising articles which include reviews, dance contacts, club and session details and event listings.

It is published 3 times per year.

For further information please contact:

Miss Sheila Mainwaring, Editor
Shreds & Patches
1 Herbert Avenue
Wellington
Telford
Shropshire
TF1 2BT

Tel: 01952 240989
Email: mainwaring@enta.net

===Folk Roundabout===

Folk Roundabout is a subscription magazine covering north east England, i.e. Teesside, North Yorkshire, Durham, Tyneside, Northumberland, and bits of Cumbria. It has news and gigs for folk clubs, sessions, dance sides, and performers, festival details, and CD reviews. It is published four times a year, and is for sale in some folk clubs in the region.

For further information please contact:
Trevor Lister (Editor)
24, Ambleside Grove,
Acklam,
Middlesbrough
Cleveland
TS5 7DQ

Tel: 01642 821776
Email: trevorl@ntlworld.com

===Folk Monthly===

Folk Monthly is a Midlands publication carrying adverts for folk clubs, sessions, festivals and performers. Diary listings, articles and reviews are being developed. It is published 11-12 times a year, and is for sale in folk clubs and by subscription.

For further information see [http://www.tradartsteam.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/FM/ web site] or email
[mailto:fm@tradartsteam.co.uk the editor]

==Internet Magazines==

===Musical Traditions===

Founded as a paper magazine by the late Keith Summers in 1983 and revived on the Internet in 1996 by Rod Stradling , this magazine covers a wide range of world traditional music.

[[Musical Traditions]]

[[Musical Traditions Magazine]]

[http://www.mustrad.org.uk/ web site]

==National Radio==

===BBC Radio 2===

The Mike Harding Show - Wednesday 8pm

Station site: [http://bbc.co.uk/radio2/ BBC Radio 2]

Programme page: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/ Web page]

Frequency: 88.1 to 90.1 FM

Stream: via the [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/biography.shtml presenter's page]

==Regional Radio==

===West Yorkshire===

====Bradford Community Broadcast====

Tim Moon presents a weekly folk music programme on BCB - Mondays at 8pm.

Station site: [http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/index.php?&MMN_position=1:1 Bradford Community Broadcast]

Programme page: [http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=20&MMN_position=42:42 "Folk Us"] Click on 'Monday'

Frequency: 106.6FM

Stream: [http://www.bcbradio.co.uk/bcb.m3u Listen online]

====PhoenixFM====

Commenced broadcasting in the Halifax area in December 2007 under an OfCom Community License. Hosts a two hour folk and roots music slot from 10am to noon each Sunday with a rota of presenters covering a wide range of folk and roots styles.

[http://www.phoenixfm.co.uk/ Phoenix FM]

===South Yorkshire===

====Sheffield Live====

Commenced broadcasting in November 2007 under an OfCom Community License. Hosts a two hour folk music show, '''''Thank Goodness It's Folk''''' from 10am to noon each Friday presented by Dave Eyre.

* [http://www.sheffieldlive.org/ Sheffield Live]
* [http://www.sheffieldlive.org/uploads/sheffieldlive.m3u Live stream]
* [http://canstream.co.uk/sheffieldlive/index.php?cat=FolkMusic Listen Again]

==Internet Radio==

===Radio Britfolk===

Started by the Britfolk performers group and recently re-branded as '''The Music Well''', this is one of the best stations around. Performers and folk activists making programmes which include DJ style presentations, documentary radio, and even educational programmes. [http://www.radiobritfolkhome.co.uk/ Listen] to current content for free or buy a subscription and listen to the extensive archives.

===Worlds of Trad===

Run by Fred McCormick, this is an eclectic mix of roots music, changed periodically and hosted by Live 365. [http://www.live365.com/stations/oneworldmusic Listen]

===Smithsonian Folkways===

What better way to put a collection of historic recordings to good use than to stream them via Live 365 Internet Radio [http://www.live365.com/stations/folkways Listen]

===WUMB Boston===

Dedicated US Folk Music station [http://www.live365.com/stations/wumb919fast Listen]

==National TV==

==Regional TV==

==IPTV==

==Folk Journalists==

==Book Publishers==

===Mally Productions===

Dave Mallinson came up the hard way to become one of the prime music publishers on the English folk scene.

Read his story [http://www.mally.com/established.asp here] and check out the available titles.

===English Folk Dance & Song Society===

The EFDSS have published a variety of books over the years on a variety of subjects. Tunes, songs, dances, essays, mumming and guising, bibliographies, etc.

Presently, the easiest way to review the current titles is via the Folkshop publications catalogue page [http://folkshop.efdss.org/publications/index.htm]

Song Books

2007-06-05T13:45:51Z

Dave Eyre:

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland]]'', Compiled and edited by Ewan MacColl 1965, Oak Publications Books. Traditional songs, with music.

* ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1968, Oak Publications, New York. Tells the story of the eight Radio Ballads (1957 - 1964) commissioned by the BBC. This book contains the story of the original radio ballads, songs taken from some of the ballads and other contemporary songs of struggle and conscience.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent book.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

* As well as that series of books from the Hammond and Gardiner manuscripts the EFDSS published two books from the collecting of Fred Hamer and one from the collecting of Ken Stubbs. These were ''Garner's Gay'' English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer (1967): ''The Life of a Man'' English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs (1970); and ''Green Groves'' More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

Folk Song Scholarship

2007-06-05T10:50:15Z

Dave Eyre:

* ''English Folk Song Some Conclusions'' [[Cecil Sharp]], 1907, Simpkin and Co, Novello and Co. This was first published in 1907 and was written at a time when few people were aware of the wealth of folk music that England possessed. By that time Sharp had been collecting for four years and noted 1,500 tunes mostly from Somerset. There was a second edition in 1936 and a third revised edition in 1954. This was in effect a new edition by Maud Karpeles who makes a few modifications which she considers Sharp would have made with his later wider knowledge. There is an appreciation of Sharp by Ralph Vaughan Williams in this third edition. There was also a fourth edition (1965) and a reprint of the 1907 edition published by EP publishing (1972).*

* ''English Folk Song and Dance'', [[Frank Kidson]] and [[Mary Neal]], 1915, Cambridge University Press (Reprint 1972 - EP Publishing)

* ''National Music'' [[Ralph Vaughan-Williams]], 1934, Oxford University Press

* ''The Common Muse'' [[V. de Sola Pinto and A.E. Rodway]], An Anthology of Popular British ballad poetry from the 15th century to the 20th century. Chatto and Windus 1957 also Penguin 1965. Lots of interesting material but no tunes.

* ''[[Sailortown]]'' [[Stan Hugill]], 1967, Routledge, Keegan Paul

* ''[[Folk Song in England]]'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], 1967, Lawrence & Wishart (then Paladin)

* ''The Sound of History - Songs & Social Comment'', Roy Palmer, 1988, Oxford University Press

* ''The British Folk Scene - Musical Performance and Social Identity'', Niall MacKinnon, 1993, Open University Press

Folk Song Scholarship

2007-06-05T10:38:51Z

Dave Eyre:

* ''English Folk Song Some Conclusions'' [[Cecil Sharp]], 1907, Simpkin and Co, Novello and Co. This was first published in 1907 and was written at a time when few people were aware of the wealth of folk music that England possessed. By that time Sharp had been collecting for four years and noted 1,500 tunes mostly from Somerset. There was a second edition in 1936 and a third revised edition in 1954. This was in effect a new edition by Maud Karpeles who makes a few modifications which she considers Sharp would have made with his later wider knowledge. There is an appreciation of Sharp by Ralph Vaughan Williams in this third edition. There was also a fourth edition (1965) and a reprint of the 1907 edition published by EP publishing (1972).*

* ''English Folk Song and Dance'', [[Frank Kidson]] and [[Mary Neal]], 1915, Cambridge University Press (Reprint 1972 - EP Publishing)

* ''National Music'' [[Ralph Vaughan-Williams]], 1934, Oxford University Press

* ''[[Sailortown]]'' [[Stan Hugill]], 1967, Routledge, Keegan Paul

* ''[[Folk Song in England]]'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], 1967, Lawrence & Wishart (then Paladin)

* ''The Sound of History - Songs & Social Comment'', Roy Palmer, 1988, Oxford University Press

* ''The British Folk Scene - Musical Performance and Social Identity'', Niall MacKinnon, 1993, Open University Press

Song Books

2007-06-04T16:16:52Z

Dave Eyre:

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1968, Oak Publications, New York. Tells the story of the eight Radio Ballads (1957 - 1964) commissioned by the BBC. This book contains the story of the original radio ballads, songs taken from some of the ballads and other contemporary songs of struggle and conscience.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent book.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

* As well as that series of books from the Hammond and Gardiner manuscripts the EFDSS published two books from the collecting of Fred Hamer and one from the collecting of Ken Stubbs. These were ''Garner's Gay'' English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer (1967): ''The Life of a Man'' English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs (1970); and ''Green Groves'' More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

Folk Song Scholarship

2007-06-04T16:08:30Z

Dave Eyre:

* ''English Folk Song Some Conclusions'' [[Cecil Sharp]], 1907, Simpkin and Co, Novello and Co. This was first published in 1907 and was written at a time when few people were aware of the wealth of folk music that England possessed. By that time Sharp had been collecting for four years and noted 1,500 tunes mostly from Somerset. There was a second edition in 1936 and a third revised edition in 1954. This was in effect a new edition by Maud Karpeles who makes a few modifications which she considers Sharp would have made with his later wider knowledge. There is an appreciation of Sharp by Ralph Vaughan Williams in this third edition. There was also a fourth edition (1965) and a reprint of the 1907 edition published by EP publishing (1972).*

''English Folk Song and Dance'', [[Frank Kidson]] and [[Mary Neal]], 1915, Cambridge University Press (Reprint 1972 - EP Publishing)

* ''National Music'' [[Ralph Vaughan-Williams]], 1934, Oxford University Press

* ''[[Sailortown]]'' [[Stan Hugill]], 1967, Routledge, Keegan Paul

* ''[[Folk Song in England]]'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], 1967, Lawrence & Wishart (then Paladin)

* ''The Sound of History - Songs & Social Comment'', Roy Palmer, 1988, Oxford University Press

* ''The British Folk Scene - Musical Performance and Social Identity'', Niall MacKinnon, 1993, Open University Press

Song Books

2007-06-04T15:49:13Z

Dave Eyre:

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent but tends to be expensive.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

* As well as that series of books from the Hammond and Gardiner manuscripts the EFDSS published two books from the collecting of Fred Hamer and one from the collecting of Ken Stubbs. These were ''Garner's Gay'' English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer (1967): ''The Life of a Man'' English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs (1970); and ''Green Groves'' More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

Song Books

2007-05-30T20:08:50Z

Dave Eyre:

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation. Three important ones published in the early part of the current revival are:

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent but tends to be expensive

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

Song Books

2007-05-30T20:01:55Z

Dave Eyre:

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation. Three important ones published in the early part of the current revival are:

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

Books before 1900

2007-05-30T19:58:23Z

Dave Eyre:

* '''Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry''' is described in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliques_of_Ancient_English_Poetry See]

The contents might well be catalogued here but in the meantime here's one song to be going on with - [[The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington]]

* '''Old English Songs''' as Now sung by the peasantry of the Weald of Surrey and Sussex, and collected by one who has learnt them by hearing them sung every Christmas from early childhood, by the country people, who go about to the Neighbouring Houses, singing, or “Wassailing” as it is called, at that season. The Airs are set to music exactly as they are now sung to rescue them from oblivion…. and to afford a specimen of genuine Old English melody, and the words are given in their original Rough state, with an occasional slight alteration to render the sense intelligible '''Arr''' G A Dusart (1843). Private publication - 1847 - of songs collected by [[John Broadwood]].

* '''Old English Popular Music''' by William Chappell ''Ed. H.E.Wooldridge'' ''Additions by Frank Kidson''

* '''Popular Music of the Olden Time''' by William Chappell (1809 -1888). In two volumes, this work has been an important reference for many years. It is now freely available for download. [http://www.archive.org/details/popularmusicofol01chapuoft Volume 1] [http://www.archive.org/details/popularmusicofol02chapuoft Volume 2]

* '''[[Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire|The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire]]''' - [http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/index.asp?peakkey=40600721 Llewellyn Jewitt] - 1867 - Bemrose & Lothian (London & Derby)

* '''The Besom Maker & Other Country Folk Songs''' Heywood Sumner. Pub 1888

* '''Sussex Songs: Popular Songs of Sussex''' arranged by H F Birch Reynardson - undated- Leonard and Co, (London). (Edited in collaboration with [[Lucy Broadwood]]) (stated by Lucy Broadwood to have been published in 1889)

* '''English County Songs''' Ed. [[Lucy Broadwood]] & J A Fuller Maitland - 1893 - Leadenhall Press Ltd

* '''English Traditional Songs and Carols''' Ed. [[Lucy E. Broadwood]] - 1908
For the most part these were collected between 1893 and 1901. Very difficult to find and even when republished in 1974 EP Publishing (and Rowan and Littlefield in America) still not an easy acquisition.

Books before 1900

2007-05-30T19:57:00Z

Dave Eyre:

* '''Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry''' is described in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliques_of_Ancient_English_Poetry See]

The contents might well be catalogued here but in the meantime here's one song to be going on with - [[The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington]]

* '''Old English Songs''' as Now sung by the peasantry of the Weald of Surrey and Sussex, and collected by one who has learnt them by hearing them sung every Christmas from early childhood, by the country people, who go about to the Neighbouring Houses, singing, or “Wassailing” as it is called, at that season. The Airs are set to music exactly as they are now sung to rescue them from oblivion…. and to afford a specimen of genuine Old English melody, and the words are given in their original Rough state, with an occasional slight alteration to render the sense intelligible '''Arr''' G A Dusart (1843). Private publication - 1847 - of songs collected by [[John Broadwood]].

* '''Old English Popular Music''' by William Chappell ''Ed. H.E.Wooldridge'' ''Additions by Frank Kidson''

* '''Popular Music of the Olden Time''' by William Chappell (1809 -1888). In two volumes, this work has been an important reference for many years. It is now freely available for download. [http://www.archive.org/details/popularmusicofol01chapuoft Volume 1] [http://www.archive.org/details/popularmusicofol02chapuoft Volume 2]

* '''[[Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire|The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire]]''' - [http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/index.asp?peakkey=40600721 Llewellyn Jewitt] - 1867 - Bemrose & Lothian (London & Derby)

* '''The Besom Maker & Other Country Folk Songs''' Heywood Sumner. Pub 1888

* '''Sussex Songs: Popular Songs of Sussex''' arranged by H F Birch Reynardson - undated- Leonard and Co, (London). (Edited in collaboration with [[Lucy Broadwood]]) (stated by Lucy Broadwood to have been published in 1889)

* '''English County Songs''' Ed. [[Lucy Broadwood]] & J A Fuller Maitland - 1893 - Leadenhall Press Ltd

* '''English Traditional Songs and Carols''' Ed. [[Lucy E. Broadwood]] - 1893 - Leadenhall Press Ltd
For the most part these were collected between 1893 and 1901. Very difficult to find and even when republished in 1974 EP Publishing and Rowan and Littlefield in America 1974still not an easy acquisition,

Song Books

2007-05-30T19:52:48Z

Dave Eyre:

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation. Three important ones published in the early part of the current revival are:

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

Books since 1900

2007-04-27T19:56:06Z

Dave Eyre: /* Books on the Folk genre */

==Books on the Folk genre==

* ''National Music'' by [[Ralph Vaughan-Williams]], 1934, Oxford University Press

* ''[[Shanties from the Seven Seas]]'' [[Stan Hugill]], 1961, Routledge and Kegan Paul. Regarded and the standard book on shipboard work songs and songs used as work songs from the great days of sail. Also published as a paperback by Mystic Seaport Museum in 1994.

* ''[[Sailortown]]'' [[Stan Hugill]], 1967, Routledge, Keegan Paul

* ''The Singing Englishman'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], Workers Music Association. N.D. 1944. This was a pre-cursor to Lloyd's seminal work, "Folk Song in England" in which he explores some of his early ideas. A small paper book, of 79 pages.

* ''[[Folk Song in England]]'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], 1967, Lawrence & Wishart. There are three versions of this book, the Lawrence and Wishart hardback; a paperback first published by Panther Arts in 1969 with a lute-playing harlequin on the front cover; and the Paladin Edition which came out in 1975 and has a ballad-monger on the front cover. There are no textual differences in these editions.

* ''The Sound of History - Songs & Social Comment'', Roy Palmer, 1988, Oxford University Press

* ''The British Folk Scene - Musical Performance and Social Identity'', Niall MacKinnon, 1993, Open University Press

==Songbooks==

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

Books since 1900

2007-04-27T19:44:23Z

Dave Eyre:

==Books on the Folk genre==

* ''National Music'' by [[Ralph Vaughan-Williams]], 1934, Oxford University Press

* ''[[Sailortown]]'' [[Stan Hugill]], 1967, Routledge, Keegan Paul

* ''The Singing Englishman'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], Workers Music Association. N.D. 1944. This was a pre-cursor to Lloyd's seminal work, "Folk Song in England" in which he explores some of his early ideas. A small paper book, of 79 pages.

* ''[[Folk Song in England]]'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], 1967, Lawrence & Wishart. There are three versions of this book, the Lawrence and Wishart hardback; a paperback first published by Panther Arts in 1969 with a lute-playing harlequin on the front cover; and the Paladin Edition which came out in 1975 and has a ballad-monger on the front cover. There are no textual differences in these editions.

* ''The Sound of History - Songs & Social Comment'', Roy Palmer, 1988, Oxford University Press

* ''The British Folk Scene - Musical Performance and Social Identity'', Niall MacKinnon, 1993, Open University Press

==Songbooks==

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections)

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

Folk Song in England

2007-04-27T19:43:38Z

Dave Eyre: New page: A.L.Lloyd's "Folk Song In England" is both scholarly and entertaining. It does lack decent references so sometimes the academic reader can get frustrated, though the bibliography is very f...

A.L.Lloyd's "Folk Song In England" is both scholarly and entertaining. It does lack decent references so sometimes the academic reader can get frustrated, though the bibliography is very full. One of Lloyd's great strengths, reflected in this book is the weight given to industrial songs. (Roman letters in the original).

Chapter Headings

I The Foundations of Folk Song

II The Songs of Ceremony and Occasion

III The Big Ballads

IV The Lyrical Songs and Later Ballads

V Industrial Songs